Dec 31, 2025
Looking at the semi‑legendary story of the ship’s loss and miraculous return, tracing how the Ouzel Galley Society evolved into or alongside the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, and Kingston’s influential novel. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all...
Dec 31, 2025
A sketch of the Pigeonhouse Harbour’s history as Dublin’s main packet‑boat station, later barracks and power‑station site, taking in the Green Patch—once a strategic tidal islet and work‑yard for the South Wall— and the famous chimenys and the modern Poolbeg port...
Dec 31, 2025
Tracing the Ringsend glassworks’ rise under hospitals-sweepstake backers, its sale and closure under Paul Coulson, speculative boom‑time land deals and Becbay’s collapse, and today’s Poolbeg West SDZ plan for 3,500 homes on the remediated port peninsula. Become a...
Dec 30, 2025
See here for more historical stories from Dublin Ringsend has always been a place apart. Even in the 21st century, the Dublin suburb (framed on a 57-acre townland) seems destined to retain a healthy degree of old world charm. Its long-term residents are extremely...
Dec 30, 2025
See here for more historical stories from Dublin Sometimes humanity doesn’t pat itself on the back and say well done. We’re always achieving awesome things. In Georgian times, many extraordinary feats was achieved by the sheer strength of the hordes of anonymous...
